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Title

of pretence of right to hold and continue such possession. 2. The next step to a good and perfect title is the right of possession, which may reside in one man, while the actual possession is not

Trust

in cortice. Trusts may be classed thus:- (I.) Express, or defined by words; divided into- (a) Trusts executed, perfect, complete, or constituted. (b) Trusts executory, imperfect, incomplete, or directory. (II.) Arising by operation of law, such as

Abstract of title

s. 110, and Brickdale and Stewart-Wallace on the Land Registration Act, 1925. An abstract is said to be perfect if it deduces the title from the date fixed by the contract or by statute for its commencement

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Amendment

the amendment which is a change or alteration is only for the purpose of making the Constitution more perfect, effective and meaning-ful, Raghunathrao Ganpatrao v. Union of India, 1994 Supp (1) SCC 191: AIR 1993 SC 1267

Maritime law

navigators should act. The decisions of Lord Mansfield did much to fix the principles and to improve and perfect the maritime law of England. It is also under gret obligations to Lord Stowell. The decisions of the

Sanskrit

allied to the Persian and to the principal languages of Europe classical and modern and by its more perfect preservation of the roots and forms of the primitive language from which they are all descended is a

Belemnite

the lower extremity with a conical cavity at the other end where it is ordinarily broken but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone called the phragmocone prolonged on one side into a delicate concave blade

Disfigure

To mar the figure of to render less complete perfect or beautiful in appearance to deface to deform

Decay

To pass gradually from a sound prosperous or perfect state to one of imperfection adversity or dissolution to waste away to decline to fail to become weak

cronstedtite

A mineral consisting principally of silicate of iron and crystallizing in hexagonal prisms with perfect basal cleavage so named from the Swedish mineralogist Cronstedt

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